Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Clubs and blog located in Auckland / Sandringham and Epsom / New Zealand contact us on info@aucklandbjj.com.
Run by IBJJF Black belts (1 degree) Stuart Mitchell and Serge Morel.
Our classes are on Mondays and Wednesday from 6-8 pm at 681 Sandringham Road (Sandringham) and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-8 pm at 6 Woodhall Road (Epsom) Auckland, New Zealand.

Sunday, 28 October 2018

I did not take an pictures last week so I am going to post some from our students instead
This is a picture of Fern who is currently training Judo in Japan.
In this picture she is with Yoshio Kanaya (left) and Matsura Sensei (middle) at the Daishin Judo Club.
I am not too sure if they were impressed with her white belt BJJ with 2 stripes.

This week was short to the public holiday and we covered guard pass.
Such techniques do varies greatly depending in you train GI or NOGI.
Serge taught reverse de la riva on Tuesday Nogi advance and Stu taught lapel guard (aslo known as the wor guard) in advanced Thursday.
Adam Wilson also demonstrated his single X entry to straight ankle and how to defend the same attack.

Since we have no more competition, we are now winding down towards the end of the year.

Please note that graduation is on Monday 3 December from 6 pm at Sandringham Dojo.
This is the first time we have a merged graduation at the new expansion.

If you want to learn BJJ, please come down for a free class or email us for more information.
All levels welcome.

The last pictures are from the NZ Judo Nationals where Ben won the bronze medal.
Well done.

Sunday, 14 October 2018

North South position is taught 4 weeks per year and it is a dominant position that you can achieve for
getting your 3 points for the guard pass.
Also, while some people are really good at defending from bottom side control, North South position is really problematic when you get under it.
To start with, we teach the concept of framing which is concept that is also taught from bottom side control.
The basic escape is the reverse shrimp that we do for warm up.

The NZ grappler no gi competition has a low attendance compare to other year.
I do not why but we also had a small team of competitors (4) compare to the 10 that competed at the last Gi Nationals.
Also, I heard that one of the biggest and best team is now boycotting the NZ grappler events.
It is a bit sad to see politics getting in the way of the promotion of the sport.
Hopefully, they will make peace and enter the next year event.

This is the end of the competition season for 2018.

Next year, we will host another inter club before the NOGI nationals. I have extended our invitation to Clinch BJJ for the next inter club. They have similar size club and are keen to get that competition experience.

Laurance won silver medal after losing to a brown belt in the final.
Jay won bronze medal. He would have won the silver but got demoted for a disciplinary foul in the final.

Laurance also won the club cash prize of $100 for the most subs.

If you want to learn and training BJJ, please come down for a free class at either sites (Epsom or Sandringham). All levels welcome

So we start Mike Jones criticizing the fact that she will competes at blue belt level compare to all her achievements at the level. But he makes a mistake to mention American Top Team which is weird because I understand it is now New Zealand Top Team only.

But it gets better when another commentator mentioned that she is competing at white belt level even though she is aware that it is against the SJJF rules because she is a Judo Black Belt.

But then it get better when NZ grappler is introducing another competitor at white belt level.

You can clearly see the troll Mike Jones taking a sharp jab at her being not white belt material.

But you can also read the question from another coach wondering why she was competing at white belt.

But seriously, is there something really wrong in this sport where people feels that some competitors are on purpose competing at lower level so they could a medal.

Is it not absurd to see the same competitors keep competing a the same belt even thought they won or even place at the previous event?

Do we need to protect our novice students by insuring that the beginner division is a real beginner division and not made on past champions?

But who is responsible for such trend?

Nothing new, it is usually the coaches that want to win medals.

Medals bring fame and more students I guess.

Is it the organizer of the competition that is responsible to ensure that the customers are competing in the right category?